Friday, December 8, 2017

I got these tiles from Home Depot, they are attached to a mesh but you just peel them off.

I was going to use Stazon Ink for this, However my ink pad was pretty dry, and I couldn't find my remover and it's bad for your stamps anyways, so I figured I would just heat emboss!

I patted my tile with the powder bag then I used Versafine to stamp my sentiment. I sprinkled it with the embossing powder right away. I did have a little stick to places other than the ink but I blew on it and it went away, a forceful blow, kinda like you are spitting but no spit! LOL!

Then I applied the heat. . . it took a while. . . . and the tile was HOT!!!! So be careful!!!

I also had to wait for the tile to cool down before I could do the present,

I didn't want my embossing powder to melt all over the tile!

Here is is all nice and shiny!

I colored it with my Copics but you could use sharpies also!

I use these silver bails to make them hang-able, I use a little bit of this E6000. . . it is pretty stinky but I set them outside or down in my empty basement to dry overnight. . . . I think you can use hot glue or any other strong adhesive.

That's it! You could put anything on this!

I also do some that I glue a magnet to the back to put it on my fridge!

I added the Merry and Bright from the Tag it set and then did a little stamp surgery to get My Love from the Couples Sentiments set. I stamped them in green to match the tag. I added a bit of holly on the side. Since this is for my significant other, and he is not that into glitter (Why, I have no idea.. . ) I just added a little bit of stickles on the holly.

Wednesday, November 29, 2017

I started with cutting all my panels out for the cards. I used the stitched rectangle dies from

Lawn Fawn.

For my base I used a glitter plaid and my next panel is a tone on tone green that

matches the green in the plaid.

My top panel is watercolor paper.

I used my mini Misti stamping tool to stamp my image on my watercolor panel. I used Versafine for the reindeer head and wanted to stamp my sentiment in color so I chose Distress Ink Peeled Paint to go with the green in my background.

I colored the reindeer head using two shades of brown Clean Color Zig Markers, I used a third lighter brown to blend it all together. I was going to use my water brush but this light brown did a great job. I use a glaze pen on the nose. . . I made 4 of these cards and after doing three of them with black noses I realized they should be Rudolf! I gave my last one a red nose. . . .

Time to assemble!

I put my layers together and adhered them to my card base.

Since the back ground has glitter on it

I decided to use some wood veneer stars and some red sequins.

These cards turned out perfectly, and I am glad I finally got to use these stars!

I decided that I wanted my little square cutouts to be recessed on the card front so I used some foam tape to pop up the main part of the panel.

I cut my panel from watercolor paper so I colored my little icons with some Zig clean color markers and a water brush.

I also decided that I wanted a color wash on the front of my panel to help the recessed squares stand out a little bit more. I used Mission Gold watercolors to add an orange and yellow wash to the top portion of my card.

I attached the panel to my card base and added the decorated squares.

I finished off the card with some orange sequins and also traced the stitching with a white pen to make it stand out a little better.

I cut an extra top panel in white so that when I layer them up they are the same size and still have the stitching. I used my mini Misti to stamp my holiday greeting onto my white paper and then die cut it to look like a snow bank.

I used watercolors to make a color wash for my background.

I used Copic markers to color in my cute critters. . .

Since these critters have no bottom I extended the bottom and closed the image up using a black fine tip pen. This way my Scan n Cut was able to cut the whole image out.

Now it is time to assemble my cards!

I use my Silhouette to cut some santa hats. I used a snow pen to put some fluff on the hat. A snow pen has a liquid that reacts to heat. You apply with the pen and use a heat gun and the liquid bubbles up and looks like snow!

I added the hats and a few glitter enamel dots, card complete!

I like how these cards turned out!

These little critters are so cute and they are even cuter with these little Santa hats!